World Art Utopia

La Guitarra de Árboles

Aerial view of a forest planted in the shape of a guitar, its outline and strings made of rows of trees, surrounded by green farm fields in Argentina.
Artwork FileGeneral Levalle, Córdoba · Argentina

La Guitarra de Árboles

Seen30 Mar 2026

Pedro Martín Ureta and family · General Levalle, Córdoba

Photograph from the Street Art Utopia archive. Credited to Marco Guoli in the source post; camera date not recorded. Full framing retained; resized. The share image uses the full photograph over a blurred background.

Near General Levalle, rows of trees form a guitar large enough to appear in a satellite image. Pedro Martín Ureta and his children began planting it as a memorial to Graciela Yraizoz. Source Reported

Seen Mar 2026. Source Dates refer to the linked evidence, not a new on-site inspection.

💡 4 things to know

  1. A family memorialThe planting commemorates Ureta’s wife, Graciela Yraizoz. Source Reported
  2. Strings in another colourEucalyptus trees mark the strings against the darker cypress outline. Source Reported
  3. Visible from orbitNASA published a false-colour Terra image acquired in November 2007. Source Reported
  4. Still tendedAn April 2026 report describes the children maintaining the forest. Source Reported

📍 Where it is

Estancia La Guitarra, General Levalle, Córdoba, Argentina Source Reported

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🗓️ Sightings

  1. 1979

    Planting began · history recorded by NASA

  2. 20072 Nov

    Terra satellite image acquired

  3. 201427 Apr

    NASA publishes Guitar Forest

  4. 202314 Feb

    Vía País profiles the memorial planting

  5. 202630 Mar

    AFP aerial photograph, reproduced in Buenos Aires Times

  6. 202616 Apr

    Family maintenance reported

Green stamps are dated photographs; amber stamps are records or reports. Publication and upload dates are not camera dates. A dated sighting does not guarantee the work remains in place today.

✅ The facts

Creator
Pedro Martín Ureta and family Source Checked
Planting began
1979 Source Checked
Place
Estancia La Guitarra, near General Levalle, Córdoba Source Checked
Dedicated to
Graciela Yraizoz Source Checked
Approximate tree count
7,000 Source Reported
Length
About 1.1 kilometres Source Reported

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All sources & image credits

Photograph from the Street Art Utopia archive. Credited to Marco Guoli in the source post; camera date not recorded. Full framing retained; resized. The share image uses the full photograph over a blurred background.

Last checked: 24 October 2026 · How we verify art